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America is a great, strong country. It has been this way because of a 200-year-old document that has kept this nation standing. Our laws, government and senate are all based on the Constitution. America was once ruled by Britain and was heavily taxed, treated poorly, and was given many strict laws that forbid Americans to do many things. After America defeated Britain in the Revolutionary war, 55 delegates came together to write the Constitution. They wrote the Constitution to stop all the cruel things that had happened to them. They based the ideas in the Constitution on the things that Britain had done to them, so I think the Constitution was an extension of the spirit and ideology of the American Revolution. Several documents will support this.
Common Sense (1776)
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine makes some important points. The points that are talked about in Common Sense are what the constitution is supposed to protect us from. One main point was that many people thought that......

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